A Message to the Catalan people, Un missatge per als catalans

The State is only an expedient — a means of attaining an end. It exists because the people have chosen it to execute their will. It exists for the sole purpose of ensuring individual freedom and promoting the will of the people.

Only action — what you do about your objection or decision — matters. Wrong will be redressed only by the individual, not through the mechanism of an aberrant government. The individual must not support the structure of an illegitimate government, must act with principle, must break the law if necessary.

If by free vote the people of Catalonia have made the decision to separate from the rest of Spain, no approval or agreeance is necessary or indeed due from an any other party, person or institution.

If the Spanish State opposes that decision, it abrogates its legitimacy by rejecting the will of the people; if it uses force to attempt to maintain its control, then the Catalonian people are justified in responding with like force.